Bat survey in Luckington
On the 16th May a group of us went to St Mary with St Ethelbert Church in Luckington to carry out an emergency survey. This was prompted by the discovery of a rare Lesser Horsehoe bat close by last year…
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Big Garden Birdwatch 2025
Living with Swifts – the Sirens of Summer
On 7th May 2024 30 people came to Malmesbury Town Hall to hear about Swifts from Sarah Roberts of North Wiltshire Swifts. Sarah has been involved in bird conservation for over a decade and started North Wiltshire Swifts in 2019…
Bats of Malmesbury and the Braydon Forest
We are particularly fond of bats at MDNHS headquarters, with two committee members regularly volunteering with Wiltshire Bat Group. We are fortunate in Wiltshire to be a bat ‘hotspot’ in Britain, hosting almost all of our 17 native breeding bat species. …
Beaver Signs Bonanza!
On Saturday 13th January a group of us went on a walk looking for signs of beavers along the Avon at Malmesbury. The purpose of the walk was to train everyone present on what signs beavers leave behind so that we…